2016-2017 11th Grade English III Humanities

The Crucible by Arthur Miller - Available for $15.00 (ISBN: 978-0-14-243733-9)The play centers on the Salem witch trials of the late seventeenth century and the problem of guilt by association.

1984 by George Orwell – Available for $10.00 (ISBN:978-0-451-52493-5 )In 1984, the Party rules Oceania with an iron fist, monitoring all of its citizens day and night. Winston Smith, an employee of the Ministry of Truth, attempts to join a resistance group called "the Brotherhood" with his girlfriend Julia. He's captured by the Party and tortured until he suffers a mental breakdown and declares his love of Big Brother.

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain - Available for $6 (ISBN: 978-0-553-21079-8)This is a novel by Mark Twain, first published in England in December 1884 and in the United States in February 1885. Commonly named among the Great American Novels, the work is among the first in major American literature to be written throughout in vernacular English, characterized by local color regionalism.

The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald – Available for $16 (ISBN: 978-0-7432-7356-5)Tells the tragic love story of Gatsby and Daisy Buchanan, a dashing, enigmatic millionaire obsessed with an elusive, spoiled young woman.

David & Goliath by Malcolm Gladwell - Available for $18.00 (ISBN: 978-0-316-20437-8)Three thousand years ago on a battlefield in ancient Palestine, a shepherd boy felled a mighty warrior with nothing more than a pebble and a sling-and ever since, the names of David and Goliath have stood for battles between underdogs and giants. David's victory was improbable and miraculous. He shouldn't have won.

The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot- Available for $16.00 (ISBN: 978-1-4000-5218-9)By early 1951, Henrietta Lacks, a mother of five in Baltimore, had suffered for some time from what she described as a painful "knot on my womb." She sought treatment at Johns Hopkins, a charity hospital and the only one around that treated black patients. The diagnosis: cervical cancer. Before administering radium for the first time, the attending doctor cut two dime-size samples of tissue, one cancerous and one healthy, from Lacks's cervix. No one asked permission or even informed her.